Sustainable Design and Planning
Blog URL http://sustainableplanningdesign.blogspot.com
Located Washington, District of Columbia USA
Tags sustainable, design, planning, green, buildings, recycling, waste, solar, earth
This is a website about methods of sustainable design and planning so as to achieve sustainable green communities.
Latest Blog Posts
- SUSTAINABLE AND ENERGY-EFFICIENT METHODS OF TRANSPORTATION on Apr 21, 2009 in sustainable design sustainable planning mass transit
Mass Transit -- Next to the energy used to heat and cool buildings, the greatest amount of energy we used is in transportation. As such, any sustainable design and planning of our urban communities needs to incorporate the use of mass transit and oth...
- on Apr 21, 2009 in sustainable design sustainable planning
Sustainable design and urban planning is guided by several principles borrowed from biology or the natural environment. These include the concepts of: (1) connectedness; (2) renewability; (3) efficiency; (4) minimization of externalities or negative...
- on Apr 21, 2009 in sustainable resource recovery recycling
RECYCLING AND RESOURCE RECOVERY - Recycling and resource recovery is the other sustainable method of dealing with waste. In the 1970's, the U.S. EPA took the lead in helping to promote recycling and resource recovery. This included funding demonstrat...
- on Apr 21, 2009
Mariemont town square.
- on Apr 21, 2009 in light rail
Example of light-rail mass transit.
- on Apr 21, 2009 in energy efficient building materials sustainable design
NEW ENERGY-EFFICIENT BUILDING MATERIALS -- Most individuals do not realize that the heating and air-conditioning of our buildings accounts for over 50 percent of all our energy usage. One way to reduce such energy usage and to make our urban environm...
- on Apr 21, 2009
"New Urbanism" community of Celebration designed and built by Disney in Orlando, Florida.
